Over 25 years ago, researchers discovered that some of these deep Earth reverberations pointed to the existence of two underground “super-continents” hundreds of miles beneath Africa and the Pacific ...

Continent-size islands deep inside Earth's mantle could be more than a billion years old, a new study finds.

Researchers Discover an Adorable Baby Volcano Under the Ocean, Say It Erupted 3 Million Years Ago In 2019, researchers spotted what they believed to be a 'petit-spot volcano' on the Pacific plate.

Deeply hidden in Earth's mantle there are two huge "islands" the size of a continent. New research from Utrecht University ...

These ancient buried "super-continents"—known to scientists as large low-seismic-velocity provinces (LLSVPs)—were found ...

Researchers have found the "ignition" mechanism of earthquakes, with their latest findings published in "Nature." They ...

Instead, the shell (which we call the crust) is split into several rigid plates. These are the tectonic plates. Tectonic plates are also not fixed — they move around atop the mantle and are ...